Wood, whose real name is Alfred Jesse Smith, was born in Shreveport, Louisiana in 1941. Rock music world rocked by deaths of ...

Ed Askew, a cult folk music singer/songwriter and painter, died on Jan. 4. He was 84. PEOPLE Magazine reported that Askew had ...

Melba Montgomery ... her 1977 rendition of Merilee Rush’s 1968 Top 10 pop hit. Her most consistent and enduring success, though, came with the songs she performed with others, beginning with ...

Melba Montgomery, a country singer and ... What It Takes)," written by Clyde Otis and Murray Stein. Ms. Montgomery cracked the top 40 on the Billboard country chart a solo singer with "Don't ...

Country singer Melba Montgomery has ... recorded singles for a small label. Montgomery got her big break in 1963 when signed with United Artists Records and was introduced to George Jones. They went ...

January’s music losses include Marianne Faithfull, Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul & Mary, Sam Moore of Sam & Dave, Wayne Osmond of The Osmonds, Garth Hudson of The Band, John Sykes of Whitesnake, and ...

Melba Montgomery, a country singer and songwriter whose Southern inflections and high harmonies brought a distinctive flourish alongside duet partners such as George Jones in ballads about ...

Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Melba Montgomery, a country singer known for her duets with George Jones, Gene Pitney and Charlie Louvin, has died. She was 86. Her death was confirmed by her ...

Country singer Melba Montgomery has died ... Travis Tritt and Terri Clark recorded her songs over the years. In 2000, George Strait scored a No. 4 hit with "What Do You Say to That," which she wrote.